By Catherine Fox | Dec 2, 2010
Miami -- Art Basel Miami Beach, the queen of the myriad art fairs, is taking place this week. It held its official previews for the press and invited guests today. More than 250 galleries from around the world were represented in the Miami Beach Convention Center, showing a staggering array of works, ranging from blue-chip modern masters to young turks.
The sheer quantity is overwhelming, although the quality doesn't always keep up. But we found lots to like and a number of very interesting artists we had never seen. We also found the dealers to be friendly, which is not always the case elsewhere.
Some ...
By Catherine Fox | Dec 1, 2010
Miami -- Home to Art Basel, the hugely popular annual art fair, Miami is also rife with sophisticated collectors who generously share their art with the public. Many have built museum-quality spaces and mount rotating exhibitions, and a number plan special shows timed to coincide with the fair.
Because the fair doesn't open officially until Wednesday, we spent our first day in this sun-soaked city checking out those private collections. The big news is that we discovered a brand-new one.
While lunching at Michael's, the famous Design District eatery, we ran into New York artist Michele Oka Doner and critic Anthony Haden-Guest, who sang the ...
By Catherine Fox | Nov 30, 2010
The Hudgens Prize is a juried competition open to Georgia artists. The prize, organized by the Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts, comes with $50,000 and a solo exhibition at the Gwinnett County venue in 2011.
And the winner is Gyun Hur.
The announcement was made tonight at a reception for the exhibition that encompassed the five finalists: Hur, Hope Hilton, Jiha Moon, Scott Ingram and Ruth Dusseault. The jury -- David Kiehl (prints curator, Whitney Museum of American Art); Sylvie Fortin (editor in chief, Art Papers); and Eungie Joo (director and curator of exhibitions and public programs, New Museum) -- had made its decision only this morning, ...
By Catherine Fox | Nov 29, 2010
This is the week when thousands of artists, collectors, critics, gallerists and assorted celebrities and hangers-on make their annual pilgrimage to Florida for the art fair known as Art Basel Miami Beach -- a tip of the hat to the mother ship in Switzerland.
The eye-boggling array of gallery booths on the mainstage is only the beginning. In addition to the satellite fairs that have proliferated around the city, attendees will visit museums, private collections, public art displays, lectures and, of course, parties.
No one can see it all. ArtsCriticATL is here to help. My colleague Rebecca Dimling Cochran and I are off to ...
By Catherine Fox | Nov 28, 2010
What do the Atlanta BeltLine and Le Grand Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy's vision for metropolitan Paris, have in common?
Both are bold, long-term, potentially transformative projects intending to link and regenerate disparate areas through infrastructure: parks and transportation. And both are the subject of "Grand Plans/Everyday Life: Le Grand Paris/Atlanta BeltLine," an international symposium at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture, which brings together French and American politicians, academics, professionals and community members for a series of talks and panel discussions on Saturday, December 4.
The brainchild of architecture school associate dean Sabir Khan, it is also intended as a launching pad for ...
By Catherine Fox | Nov 24, 2010
The self-described ‘“statistician” of her life, Kathryn Refi has made a practice of collecting quantitative data of her experiences and translating it into abstract paintings.
Her solo show at Solomon Projects largely consists of (gasp!) figurative pastels and charcoal drawings, like a charcoal replay (left) of former football star O.J. Simpson in action, which demonstrate the Athens artist's hand and mastery of the academic skills she has been studiously avoiding.
Also puzzling is that the images are seemingly random. What, for instance, does football have to do with the pastel (below) of the corpse of Italian film director Pier Pasolini?
The answer is, as I ...
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